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| <html><P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">In the passive, 'need' can be followed by a gerund or an infinitive with the same meaning:</SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; BACKGROUND: white; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"> </SPAN></B></P> <TABLE style="BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=1 Table> <TBODY> <TR style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes"> <TD style="BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; WIDTH: 239.4pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt" vAlign=top width=319> <P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"> </SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">This office needs <SPAN style="COLOR: #0000cc">cleaning</SPAN> every morning.</SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">This computer will need <SPAN style="COLOR: #0000cc">replacing</SPAN> soon.</SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">The seminar needed <SPAN style="COLOR: #0000cc">organising</SPAN> better than that.</SPAN></B></P></TD> <TD style="BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; BORDER-LEFT: #f0f0f0; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; WIDTH: 239.4pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt" vAlign=top width=319> <P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"> </SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">This office needs <SPAN style="COLOR: #0000cc">to be </SPAN>cleaned every morning.</SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">This computer will need <SPAN style="COLOR: #0000cc">to be </SPAN>replaced soon.</SPAN></B></P> <P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">The seminar needed <SPAN style="COLOR: #0000cc">to be </SPAN> |